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  <div class="section" id="s-using-the-django-authentication-system">
<span id="using-the-django-authentication-system"></span><h1>Using the Django authentication system<a class="headerlink" href="#using-the-django-authentication-system" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>This document explains the usage of Django&#8217;s authentication system in its
default configuration. This configuration has evolved to serve the most common
project needs, handling a reasonably wide range of tasks, and has a careful
implementation of passwords and permissions. For projects where authentication
needs differ from the default, Django supports extensive <a class="reference internal" href="customizing.html"><em>extension and
customization</em></a> of authentication.</p>
<p>Django authentication provides both authentication and authorization together
and is generally referred to as the authentication system, as these features
are somewhat coupled.</p>
<div class="section" id="s-user-objects">
<span id="s-id1"></span><span id="user-objects"></span><span id="id1"></span><h2>User objects<a class="headerlink" href="#user-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">User</span></tt></a> objects are the core of the
authentication system. They typically represent the people interacting with
your site and are used to enable things like restricting access, registering
user profiles, associating content with creators etc. Only one class of user
exists in Django&#8217;s authentication framework, i.e., <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_superuser" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_superuser"><tt class="xref py py-attr docutils literal"><span class="pre">'superusers'</span></tt></a> or admin <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_staff" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_staff"><tt class="xref py py-attr docutils literal"><span class="pre">'staff'</span></tt></a> users are just user objects with
special attributes set, not different classes of user objects.</p>
<p>The primary attributes of the default user are:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User.username" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User.username"><tt class="xref py py-attr docutils literal"><span class="pre">username</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User.password" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User.password"><tt class="xref py py-attr docutils literal"><span class="pre">password</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User.email" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User.email"><tt class="xref py py-attr docutils literal"><span class="pre">email</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User.first_name" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User.first_name"><tt class="xref py py-attr docutils literal"><span class="pre">first_name</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User.last_name" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User.last_name"><tt class="xref py py-attr docutils literal"><span class="pre">last_name</span></tt></a></li>
</ul>
<p>See the <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">full</span> <span class="pre">API</span> <span class="pre">documentation</span></tt></a> for
full reference, the documentation that follows is more task oriented.</p>
<div class="section" id="s-creating-users">
<span id="s-topics-auth-creating-users"></span><span id="creating-users"></span><span id="topics-auth-creating-users"></span><h3>Creating users<a class="headerlink" href="#creating-users" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The most direct way to create users is to use the included
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.UserManager.create_user" title="django.contrib.auth.models.UserManager.create_user"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">create_user()</span></tt></a> helper function:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.contrib.auth.models</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">User</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">user</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">User</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">objects</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">create_user</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;john&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&#39;lennon@thebeatles.com&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&#39;johnpassword&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="go"># At this point, user is a User object that has already been saved</span>
<span class="go"># to the database. You can continue to change its attributes</span>
<span class="go"># if you want to change other fields.</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">user</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">last_name</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">&#39;Lennon&#39;</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">user</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">save</span><span class="p">()</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>If you have the Django admin installed, you can also <a class="reference internal" href="#auth-admin"><em>create users
interactively</em></a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-creating-superusers">
<span id="s-topics-auth-creating-superusers"></span><span id="creating-superusers"></span><span id="topics-auth-creating-superusers"></span><h3>Creating superusers<a class="headerlink" href="#creating-superusers" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Create superusers using the <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/django-admin.html#django-admin-createsuperuser"><tt class="xref std std-djadmin docutils literal"><span class="pre">createsuperuser</span></tt></a> command:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>$ python manage.py createsuperuser --username=joe --email=joe@example.com
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>You will be prompted for a password. After you enter one, the user will be
created immediately. If you leave off the <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/django-admin.html#django-admin-option---username"><tt class="xref std std-djadminopt docutils literal"><span class="pre">--username</span></tt></a> or the
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/django-admin.html#django-admin-option---email"><tt class="xref std std-djadminopt docutils literal"><span class="pre">--email</span></tt></a> options, it will prompt you for those values.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-changing-passwords">
<span id="changing-passwords"></span><h3>Changing passwords<a class="headerlink" href="#changing-passwords" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Django does not store raw (clear text) passwords on the user model, but only
a hash (see <a class="reference internal" href="passwords.html"><em>documentation of how passwords are managed</em></a> for full details). Because of this, do not attempt to
manipulate the password attribute of the user directly. This is why a helper
function is used when creating a user.</p>
<p>To change a user&#8217;s password, you have several options:</p>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/django-admin.html#django-admin-changepassword"><tt class="xref std std-djadmin docutils literal"><span class="pre">manage.py</span> <span class="pre">changepassword</span> <span class="pre">*username*</span></tt></a> offers a method
of changing a User&#8217;s password from the command line. It prompts you to
change the password of a given user which you must enter twice. If
they both match, the new password will be changed immediately. If you
do not supply a user, the command will attempt to change the password
whose username matches the current system user.</p>
<p>You can also change a password programmatically, using
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User.set_password" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User.set_password"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_password()</span></tt></a>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.contrib.auth.models</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">User</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">u</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">User</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">objects</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">username</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;john&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">u</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">set_password</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;new password&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">u</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">save</span><span class="p">()</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>If you have the Django admin installed, you can also change user&#8217;s passwords
on the <a class="reference internal" href="#auth-admin"><em>authentication system&#8217;s admin pages</em></a>.</p>
<p>Django also provides <a class="reference internal" href="#built-in-auth-views"><em>views</em></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#built-in-auth-forms"><em>forms</em></a> that may be used to allow users to change their own
passwords.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<span class="title">New in Django 1.7.</span> </div>
<p>Changing a user&#8217;s password will log out all their sessions if the
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/middleware.html#django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware" title="django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">SessionAuthenticationMiddleware</span></tt></a> is
enabled. See <a class="reference internal" href="#session-invalidation-on-password-change"><em>Session invalidation on password change</em></a> for details.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-authenticating-users">
<span id="authenticating-users"></span><h3>Authenticating Users<a class="headerlink" href="#authenticating-users" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.authenticate">
<tt class="descname">authenticate</tt>(<em>**credentials</em>)<a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth.html#authenticate"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.authenticate" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>To authenticate a given username and password, use
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.authenticate" title="django.contrib.auth.authenticate"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">authenticate()</span></tt></a>. It takes credentials in the
form of keyword arguments, for the default configuration this is
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">username</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">password</span></tt>, and it returns
a <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">User</span></tt></a> object if the password is valid
for the given username. If the password is invalid,
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.authenticate" title="django.contrib.auth.authenticate"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">authenticate()</span></tt></a> returns <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">None</span></tt>. Example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.contrib.auth</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">authenticate</span>
<span class="n">user</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">authenticate</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">username</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;john&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">password</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;secret&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">user</span> <span class="ow">is</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="bp">None</span><span class="p">:</span>
    <span class="c"># the password verified for the user</span>
    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">user</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">is_active</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;User is valid, active and authenticated&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;The password is valid, but the account has been disabled!&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
    <span class="c"># the authentication system was unable to verify the username and password</span>
    <span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;The username and password were incorrect.&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">This is a low level way to authenticate a set of credentials; for
example, it&#8217;s used by the
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/middleware.html#django.contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware" title="django.contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">RemoteUserMiddleware</span></tt></a>. Unless
you are writing your own authentication system, you probably won&#8217;t use
this. Rather if you are looking for a way to limit access to logged in
users, see the <a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required" title="django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">login_required()</span></tt></a>
decorator.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-permissions-and-authorization">
<span id="s-topic-authorization"></span><span id="permissions-and-authorization"></span><span id="topic-authorization"></span><h2>Permissions and Authorization<a class="headerlink" href="#permissions-and-authorization" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Django comes with a simple permissions system. It provides a way to assign
permissions to specific users and groups of users.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s used by the Django admin site, but you&#8217;re welcome to use it in your own
code.</p>
<p>The Django admin site uses permissions as follows:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Access to view the &#8220;add&#8221; form and add an object is limited to users with
the &#8220;add&#8221; permission for that type of object.</li>
<li>Access to view the change list, view the &#8220;change&#8221; form and change an
object is limited to users with the &#8220;change&#8221; permission for that type of
object.</li>
<li>Access to delete an object is limited to users with the &#8220;delete&#8221;
permission for that type of object.</li>
</ul>
<p>Permissions can be set not only per type of object, but also per specific
object instance. By using the
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/admin/index.html#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.has_add_permission" title="django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.has_add_permission"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">has_add_permission()</span></tt></a>,
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/admin/index.html#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.has_change_permission" title="django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.has_change_permission"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">has_change_permission()</span></tt></a> and
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/admin/index.html#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.has_delete_permission" title="django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.has_delete_permission"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">has_delete_permission()</span></tt></a> methods provided
by the <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/admin/index.html#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin" title="django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">ModelAdmin</span></tt></a> class, it is possible to
customize permissions for different object instances of the same type.</p>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">User</span></tt></a> objects have two many-to-many
fields: <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">groups</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">user_permissions</span></tt>.
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">User</span></tt></a> objects can access their related
objects in the same way as any other <a class="reference internal" href="../db/models.html"><em>Django model</em></a>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">myuser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">groups</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">group_list</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">myuser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">groups</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">group</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">group</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">...</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">myuser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">groups</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">remove</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">group</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">group</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">...</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">myuser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">groups</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">clear</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">myuser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">user_permissions</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">permission_list</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">myuser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">user_permissions</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">permission</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">permission</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">...</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">myuser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">user_permissions</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">remove</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">permission</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">permission</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">...</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">myuser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">user_permissions</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">clear</span><span class="p">()</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-default-permissions">
<span id="default-permissions"></span><h3>Default permissions<a class="headerlink" href="#default-permissions" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>When <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">django.contrib.auth</span></tt> is listed in your <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/settings.html#std:setting-INSTALLED_APPS"><tt class="xref std std-setting docutils literal"><span class="pre">INSTALLED_APPS</span></tt></a>
setting, it will ensure that three default permissions &#8211; add, change and
delete &#8211; are created for each Django model defined in one of your installed
applications.</p>
<p>These permissions will be created when you run <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/django-admin.html#django-admin-migrate"><tt class="xref std std-djadmin docutils literal"><span class="pre">manage.py</span> <span class="pre">migrate</span></tt></a>; the first time you run <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">migrate</span></tt> after adding
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">django.contrib.auth</span></tt> to <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/settings.html#std:setting-INSTALLED_APPS"><tt class="xref std std-setting docutils literal"><span class="pre">INSTALLED_APPS</span></tt></a>, the default permissions
will be created for all previously-installed models, as well as for any new
models being installed at that time. Afterward, it will create default
permissions for new models each time you run <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/django-admin.html#django-admin-migrate"><tt class="xref std std-djadmin docutils literal"><span class="pre">manage.py</span> <span class="pre">migrate</span></tt></a>.</p>
<p>Assuming you have an application with an
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/models/options.html#django.db.models.Options.app_label" title="django.db.models.Options.app_label"><tt class="xref py py-attr docutils literal"><span class="pre">app_label</span></tt></a> <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">foo</span></tt> and a model named <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Bar</span></tt>,
to test for basic permissions you should use:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>add: <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">user.has_perm('foo.add_bar')</span></tt></li>
<li>change: <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">user.has_perm('foo.change_bar')</span></tt></li>
<li>delete: <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">user.has_perm('foo.delete_bar')</span></tt></li>
</ul>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.Permission" title="django.contrib.auth.models.Permission"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Permission</span></tt></a> model is rarely accessed
directly.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-groups">
<span id="groups"></span><h3>Groups<a class="headerlink" href="#groups" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.Group" title="django.contrib.auth.models.Group"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">django.contrib.auth.models.Group</span></tt></a> models are a generic way of
categorizing users so you can apply permissions, or some other label, to those
users. A user can belong to any number of groups.</p>
<p>A user in a group automatically has the permissions granted to that group. For
example, if the group <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Site</span> <span class="pre">editors</span></tt> has the permission
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">can_edit_home_page</span></tt>, any user in that group will have that permission.</p>
<p>Beyond permissions, groups are a convenient way to categorize users to give
them some label, or extended functionality. For example, you could create a
group <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'Special</span> <span class="pre">users'</span></tt>, and you could write code that could, say, give them
access to a members-only portion of your site, or send them members-only email
messages.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-programmatically-creating-permissions">
<span id="programmatically-creating-permissions"></span><h3>Programmatically creating permissions<a class="headerlink" href="#programmatically-creating-permissions" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>While <a class="reference internal" href="customizing.html#custom-permissions"><em>custom permissions</em></a> can be defined within
a model&#8217;s <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Meta</span></tt> class, you can also create permissions directly. For
example, you can create the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">can_publish</span></tt> permission for a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">BlogPost</span></tt> model
in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">myapp</span></tt>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">myapp.models</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">BlogPost</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.contrib.auth.models</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Group</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">Permission</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.contrib.contenttypes.models</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">ContentType</span>

<span class="n">content_type</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ContentType</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">objects</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get_for_model</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">BlogPost</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">permission</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Permission</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">objects</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">create</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">codename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;can_publish&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
                                       <span class="n">name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;Can Publish Posts&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
                                       <span class="n">content_type</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">content_type</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The permission can then be assigned to a
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">User</span></tt></a> via its <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">user_permissions</span></tt>
attribute or to a <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.Group" title="django.contrib.auth.models.Group"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Group</span></tt></a> via its
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">permissions</span></tt> attribute.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-permission-caching">
<span id="permission-caching"></span><h3>Permission caching<a class="headerlink" href="#permission-caching" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend" title="django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">ModelBackend</span></tt></a> caches permissions on
the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">User</span></tt> object after the first time they need to be fetched for a
permissions check. This is typically fine for the request-response cycle since
permissions are not typically checked immediately after they are added (in the
admin, for example). If you are adding permissions and checking them immediately
afterward, in a test or view for example, the easiest solution is to re-fetch
the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">User</span></tt> from the database. For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.contrib.auth.models</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Permission</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">User</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.shortcuts</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">get_object_or_404</span>

<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">user_gains_perms</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">user_id</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="n">user</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">get_object_or_404</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">User</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">pk</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">user_id</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="c"># any permission check will cache the current set of permissions</span>
    <span class="n">user</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">has_perm</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;myapp.change_bar&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>

    <span class="n">permission</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Permission</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">objects</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">codename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;change_bar&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="n">user</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">user_permissions</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">permission</span><span class="p">)</span>

    <span class="c"># Checking the cached permission set</span>
    <span class="n">user</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">has_perm</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;myapp.change_bar&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>  <span class="c"># False</span>

    <span class="c"># Request new instance of User</span>
    <span class="n">user</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">get_object_or_404</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">User</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">pk</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">user_id</span><span class="p">)</span>

    <span class="c"># Permission cache is repopulated from the database</span>
    <span class="n">user</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">has_perm</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;myapp.change_bar&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>  <span class="c"># True</span>

    <span class="o">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-authentication-in-web-requests">
<span id="s-auth-web-requests"></span><span id="authentication-in-web-requests"></span><span id="auth-web-requests"></span><h2>Authentication in Web requests<a class="headerlink" href="#authentication-in-web-requests" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Django uses <a class="reference internal" href="../http/sessions.html"><em>sessions</em></a> and middleware to hook the
authentication system into <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/request-response.html#django.http.HttpRequest" title="django.http.HttpRequest"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">request</span> <span class="pre">objects</span></tt></a>.</p>
<p>These provide a <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/request-response.html#django.http.HttpRequest.user" title="django.http.HttpRequest.user"><tt class="xref py py-attr docutils literal"><span class="pre">request.user</span></tt></a>  attribute
on every request which represents the current user. If the current user has not
logged in, this attribute will be set to an instance
of <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.AnonymousUser" title="django.contrib.auth.models.AnonymousUser"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">AnonymousUser</span></tt></a>, otherwise it will be an
instance of <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">User</span></tt></a>.</p>
<p>You can tell them apart with
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_authenticated" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_authenticated"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">is_authenticated()</span></tt></a>, like so:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">request</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">user</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">is_authenticated</span><span class="p">():</span>
    <span class="c"># Do something for authenticated users.</span>
    <span class="o">...</span>
<span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
    <span class="c"># Do something for anonymous users.</span>
    <span class="o">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-how-to-log-a-user-in">
<span id="s-id2"></span><span id="how-to-log-a-user-in"></span><span id="id2"></span><h3>How to log a user in<a class="headerlink" href="#how-to-log-a-user-in" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>If you have an authenticated user you want to attach to the current session
- this is done with a <a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.login" title="django.contrib.auth.login"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">login()</span></tt></a> function.</p>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.login">
<tt class="descname">login</tt>()<a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth.html#login"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.login" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>To log a user in, from a view, use <a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.login" title="django.contrib.auth.login"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">login()</span></tt></a>. It
takes an <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/request-response.html#django.http.HttpRequest" title="django.http.HttpRequest"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">HttpRequest</span></tt></a> object and a
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">User</span></tt></a> object.
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.login" title="django.contrib.auth.login"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">login()</span></tt></a> saves the user&#8217;s ID in the session,
using Django&#8217;s session framework.</p>
<p>Note that any data set during the anonymous session is retained in the
session after a user logs in.</p>
<p>This example shows how you might use both
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.authenticate" title="django.contrib.auth.authenticate"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">authenticate()</span></tt></a> and
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.login" title="django.contrib.auth.login"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">login()</span></tt></a>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.contrib.auth</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">authenticate</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">login</span>

<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">my_view</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="n">username</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">request</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">POST</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s">&#39;username&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span>
    <span class="n">password</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">request</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">POST</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s">&#39;password&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span>
    <span class="n">user</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">authenticate</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">username</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">username</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">password</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">password</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">user</span> <span class="ow">is</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="bp">None</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">user</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">is_active</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="n">login</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">user</span><span class="p">)</span>
            <span class="c"># Redirect to a success page.</span>
        <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="c"># Return a &#39;disabled account&#39; error message</span>
            <span class="o">...</span>
    <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="c"># Return an &#39;invalid login&#39; error message.</span>
        <span class="o">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<div class="admonition-calling-authenticate-first admonition">
<p class="first admonition-title">Calling <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">authenticate()</span></tt> first</p>
<p class="last">When you&#8217;re manually logging a user in, you <em>must</em> successfully authenticate
the user with <a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.authenticate" title="django.contrib.auth.authenticate"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">authenticate()</span></tt></a> before you call
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.login" title="django.contrib.auth.login"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">login()</span></tt></a>.
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.authenticate" title="django.contrib.auth.authenticate"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">authenticate()</span></tt></a>
sets an attribute on the <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">User</span></tt></a> noting
which authentication backend successfully authenticated that user (see the
<a class="reference internal" href="customizing.html#authentication-backends"><em>backends documentation</em></a> for details), and
this information is needed later during the login process. An error will be
raised if you try to login a user object retrieved from the database
directly.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-how-to-log-a-user-out">
<span id="how-to-log-a-user-out"></span><h3>How to log a user out<a class="headerlink" href="#how-to-log-a-user-out" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.logout">
<tt class="descname">logout</tt>()<a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth.html#logout"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.logout" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>To log out a user who has been logged in via
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.login" title="django.contrib.auth.login"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">django.contrib.auth.login()</span></tt></a>, use
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.logout" title="django.contrib.auth.logout"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">django.contrib.auth.logout()</span></tt></a> within your view. It takes an
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/request-response.html#django.http.HttpRequest" title="django.http.HttpRequest"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">HttpRequest</span></tt></a> object and has no return value.
Example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.contrib.auth</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">logout</span>

<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">logout_view</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="n">logout</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="c"># Redirect to a success page.</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Note that <a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.logout" title="django.contrib.auth.logout"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">logout()</span></tt></a> doesn&#8217;t throw any errors if
the user wasn&#8217;t logged in.</p>
<p>When you call <a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.logout" title="django.contrib.auth.logout"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">logout()</span></tt></a>, the session data for
the current request is completely cleaned out. All existing data is
removed. This is to prevent another person from using the same Web browser
to log in and have access to the previous user&#8217;s session data. If you want
to put anything into the session that will be available to the user
immediately after logging out, do that <em>after</em> calling
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.logout" title="django.contrib.auth.logout"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">django.contrib.auth.logout()</span></tt></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="s-limiting-access-to-logged-in-users">
<span id="limiting-access-to-logged-in-users"></span><h3>Limiting access to logged-in users<a class="headerlink" href="#limiting-access-to-logged-in-users" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<div class="section" id="s-the-raw-way">
<span id="the-raw-way"></span><h4>The raw way<a class="headerlink" href="#the-raw-way" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
<p>The simple, raw way to limit access to pages is to check
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_authenticated" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_authenticated"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">request.user.is_authenticated()</span></tt></a> and either redirect to a
login page:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.conf</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">settings</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.shortcuts</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">redirect</span>

<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">my_view</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">request</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">user</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">is_authenticated</span><span class="p">():</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">redirect</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;</span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s">?next=</span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s">&#39;</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">settings</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">LOGIN_URL</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">request</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="p">))</span>
    <span class="c"># ...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>...or display an error message:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.shortcuts</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">render</span>

<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">my_view</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">request</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">user</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">is_authenticated</span><span class="p">():</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">render</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&#39;myapp/login_error.html&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="c"># ...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-the-login-required-decorator">
<span id="the-login-required-decorator"></span><h4>The login_required decorator<a class="headerlink" href="#the-login-required-decorator" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required">
<tt class="descname">login_required</tt>(<span class="optional">[</span><em>redirect_field_name=REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME</em>, <em>login_url=None</em><span class="optional">]</span>)<a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/decorators.html#login_required"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>As a shortcut, you can use the convenient
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required" title="django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">login_required()</span></tt></a> decorator:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.contrib.auth.decorators</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">login_required</span>

<span class="nd">@login_required</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">my_view</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="o">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required" title="django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">login_required()</span></tt></a> does the following:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>If the user isn&#8217;t logged in, redirect to
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/settings.html#std:setting-LOGIN_URL"><tt class="xref std std-setting docutils literal"><span class="pre">settings.LOGIN_URL</span></tt></a>, passing the current absolute
path in the query string. Example: <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/accounts/login/?next=/polls/3/</span></tt>.</li>
<li>If the user is logged in, execute the view normally. The view code is
free to assume the user is logged in.</li>
</ul>
<p>By default, the path that the user should be redirected to upon
successful authentication is stored in a query string parameter called
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&quot;next&quot;</span></tt>. If you would prefer to use a different name for this parameter,
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required" title="django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">login_required()</span></tt></a> takes an
optional <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">redirect_field_name</span></tt> parameter:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.contrib.auth.decorators</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">login_required</span>

<span class="nd">@login_required</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">redirect_field_name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;my_redirect_field&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">my_view</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="o">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Note that if you provide a value to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">redirect_field_name</span></tt>, you will most
likely need to customize your login template as well, since the template
context variable which stores the redirect path will use the value of
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">redirect_field_name</span></tt> as its key rather than <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&quot;next&quot;</span></tt> (the default).</p>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required" title="django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">login_required()</span></tt></a> also takes an
optional <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">login_url</span></tt> parameter. Example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.contrib.auth.decorators</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">login_required</span>

<span class="nd">@login_required</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">login_url</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;/accounts/login/&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">my_view</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="o">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Note that if you don&#8217;t specify the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">login_url</span></tt> parameter, you&#8217;ll need to
ensure that the <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/settings.html#std:setting-LOGIN_URL"><tt class="xref std std-setting docutils literal"><span class="pre">settings.LOGIN_URL</span></tt></a> and your login
view are properly associated. For example, using the defaults, add the
following line to your URLconf:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">r&#39;^accounts/login/$&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&#39;django.contrib.auth.views.login&#39;</span><span class="p">),</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/settings.html#std:setting-LOGIN_URL"><tt class="xref std std-setting docutils literal"><span class="pre">settings.LOGIN_URL</span></tt></a> also accepts view function
names and <a class="reference internal" href="../http/urls.html#naming-url-patterns"><em>named URL patterns</em></a>. This allows you
to freely remap your login view within your URLconf without having to
update the setting.</p>
</dd></dl>

<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">The login_required decorator does NOT check the is_active flag on a user.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-limiting-access-to-logged-in-users-that-pass-a-test">
<span id="limiting-access-to-logged-in-users-that-pass-a-test"></span><h4>Limiting access to logged-in users that pass a test<a class="headerlink" href="#limiting-access-to-logged-in-users-that-pass-a-test" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
<p>To limit access based on certain permissions or some other test, you&#8217;d do
essentially the same thing as described in the previous section.</p>
<p>The simple way is to run your test on <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/request-response.html#django.http.HttpRequest.user" title="django.http.HttpRequest.user"><tt class="xref py py-attr docutils literal"><span class="pre">request.user</span></tt></a> in the view directly. For example, this view
checks to make sure the user has an email in the desired domain and if not,
redirects to the login page:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.shortcuts</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">redirect</span>

<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">my_view</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">request</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">user</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">email</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">endswith</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;@example.com&#39;</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">redirect</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;/login/?next=</span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s">&#39;</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="n">request</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="c"># ...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.decorators.user_passes_test">
<tt class="descname">user_passes_test</tt>(<em>func</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>login_url=None</em><span class="optional">]</span>)<a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/decorators.html#user_passes_test"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.decorators.user_passes_test" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>As a shortcut, you can use the convenient <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">user_passes_test</span></tt> decorator
which performs a redirect when the callable returns <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">False</span></tt>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.contrib.auth.decorators</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">user_passes_test</span>

<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">email_check</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">user</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">user</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">email</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">endswith</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;@example.com&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="nd">@user_passes_test</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">email_check</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">my_view</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="o">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.decorators.user_passes_test" title="django.contrib.auth.decorators.user_passes_test"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">user_passes_test()</span></tt></a> takes a required
argument: a callable that takes a
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">User</span></tt></a> object and returns <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">True</span></tt> if
the user is allowed to view the page. Note that
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.decorators.user_passes_test" title="django.contrib.auth.decorators.user_passes_test"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">user_passes_test()</span></tt></a> does not
automatically check that the <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">User</span></tt></a> is
not anonymous.</p>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.decorators.user_passes_test" title="django.contrib.auth.decorators.user_passes_test"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">user_passes_test()</span></tt></a> takes an
optional <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">login_url</span></tt> argument, which lets you specify the URL for your
login page (<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/settings.html#std:setting-LOGIN_URL"><tt class="xref std std-setting docutils literal"><span class="pre">settings.LOGIN_URL</span></tt></a> by default).</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nd">@user_passes_test</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">email_check</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">login_url</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;/login/&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">my_view</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="o">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="s-the-permission-required-decorator">
<span id="the-permission-required-decorator"></span><h4>The permission_required decorator<a class="headerlink" href="#the-permission-required-decorator" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.decorators.permission_required">
<tt class="descname">permission_required</tt>(<em>perm</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>login_url=None</em>, <em>raise_exception=False</em><span class="optional">]</span>)<a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/decorators.html#permission_required"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.decorators.permission_required" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>It&#8217;s a relatively common task to check whether a user has a particular
permission. For that reason, Django provides a shortcut for that case: the
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.decorators.permission_required" title="django.contrib.auth.decorators.permission_required"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">permission_required()</span></tt></a> decorator.:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.contrib.auth.decorators</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">permission_required</span>

<span class="nd">@permission_required</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;polls.can_vote&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">my_view</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="o">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>As for the <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User.has_perm" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User.has_perm"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">has_perm()</span></tt></a> method,
permission names take the form <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&quot;&lt;app</span> <span class="pre">label&gt;.&lt;permission</span> <span class="pre">codename&gt;&quot;</span></tt>
(i.e. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">polls.can_vote</span></tt> for a permission on a model in the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">polls</span></tt>
application).</p>
<p>Note that <a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.decorators.permission_required" title="django.contrib.auth.decorators.permission_required"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">permission_required()</span></tt></a>
also takes an optional <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">login_url</span></tt> parameter. Example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.contrib.auth.decorators</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">permission_required</span>

<span class="nd">@permission_required</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;polls.can_vote&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">login_url</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;/loginpage/&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">my_view</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="o">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>As in the <a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required" title="django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">login_required()</span></tt></a> decorator,
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">login_url</span></tt> defaults to <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/settings.html#std:setting-LOGIN_URL"><tt class="xref std std-setting docutils literal"><span class="pre">settings.LOGIN_URL</span></tt></a>.</p>
<p>If the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">raise_exception</span></tt> parameter is given, the decorator will raise
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/exceptions.html#django.core.exceptions.PermissionDenied" title="django.core.exceptions.PermissionDenied"><tt class="xref py py-exc docutils literal"><span class="pre">PermissionDenied</span></tt></a>, prompting <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/views.html#http-forbidden-view"><em>the 403
(HTTP Forbidden) view</em></a> instead of redirecting to the
login page.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<span class="title">Changed in Django 1.7:</span> <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.decorators.permission_required" title="django.contrib.auth.decorators.permission_required"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">permission_required()</span></tt></a>
decorator can take a list of permissions as well as a single permission.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="s-applying-permissions-to-generic-views">
<span id="s-id3"></span><span id="applying-permissions-to-generic-views"></span><span id="id3"></span><h4>Applying permissions to generic views<a class="headerlink" href="#applying-permissions-to-generic-views" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
<p>To apply a permission to a <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/class-based-views/index.html"><em>class-based generic view</em></a>, decorate the <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/class-based-views/base.html#django.views.generic.base.View.dispatch" title="django.views.generic.base.View.dispatch"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">View.dispatch</span></tt></a> method on the class. See
<a class="reference internal" href="../class-based-views/intro.html#id2"><em>Decorating the class</em></a> for details. Another approach is to
<a class="reference internal" href="../class-based-views/intro.html#mixins-that-wrap-as-view"><em>write a mixin that wraps as_view()</em></a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-session-invalidation-on-password-change">
<span id="s-id4"></span><span id="session-invalidation-on-password-change"></span><span id="id4"></span><h4>Session invalidation on password change<a class="headerlink" href="#session-invalidation-on-password-change" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
<div class="versionadded">
<span class="title">New in Django 1.7.</span> </div>
<div class="admonition warning">
<p class="first admonition-title">Warning</p>
<p class="last">This protection only applies if
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/middleware.html#django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware" title="django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">SessionAuthenticationMiddleware</span></tt></a>
is enabled in <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/settings.html#std:setting-MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES"><tt class="xref std std-setting docutils literal"><span class="pre">MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES</span></tt></a>. It&#8217;s included if
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">settings.py</span></tt> was generated by <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/django-admin.html#django-admin-startproject"><tt class="xref std std-djadmin docutils literal"><span class="pre">startproject</span></tt></a> on Django ≥ 1.7.</p>
</div>
<p>If your <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/settings.html#std:setting-AUTH_USER_MODEL"><tt class="xref std std-setting docutils literal"><span class="pre">AUTH_USER_MODEL</span></tt></a> inherits from
<a class="reference internal" href="customizing.html#django.contrib.auth.models.AbstractBaseUser" title="django.contrib.auth.models.AbstractBaseUser"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">AbstractBaseUser</span></tt></a> or implements its own
<a class="reference internal" href="customizing.html#django.contrib.auth.models.AbstractBaseUser.get_session_auth_hash" title="django.contrib.auth.models.AbstractBaseUser.get_session_auth_hash"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">get_session_auth_hash()</span></tt></a>
method, authenticated sessions will include the hash returned by this function.
In the <a class="reference internal" href="customizing.html#django.contrib.auth.models.AbstractBaseUser" title="django.contrib.auth.models.AbstractBaseUser"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">AbstractBaseUser</span></tt></a> case, this is an
HMAC of the password field. If the
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/middleware.html#django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware" title="django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">SessionAuthenticationMiddleware</span></tt></a> is
enabled, Django verifies that the hash sent along with each request matches
the one that&#8217;s computed server-side. This allows a user to log out all of their
sessions by changing their password.</p>
<p>The default password change views included with Django,
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.views.password_change" title="django.contrib.auth.views.password_change"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">django.contrib.auth.views.password_change()</span></tt></a> and the
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">user_change_password</span></tt> view in the <a class="reference internal" href="index.html#module-django.contrib.auth" title="django.contrib.auth: Django's authentication framework."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">django.contrib.auth</span></tt></a> admin, update
the session with the new password hash so that a user changing their own
password won&#8217;t log themselves out. If you have a custom password change view
and wish to have similar behavior, use this function:</p>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.decorators.update_session_auth_hash">
<tt class="descname">update_session_auth_hash</tt>(<em>request</em>, <em>user</em>)<a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.decorators.update_session_auth_hash" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>This function takes the current request and the updated user object from
which the new session hash will be derived and updates the session hash
appropriately. Example usage:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.contrib.auth</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">update_session_auth_hash</span>

<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">password_change</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">request</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">method</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="s">&#39;POST&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="n">form</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">PasswordChangeForm</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">user</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">user</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">data</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">POST</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">form</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">is_valid</span><span class="p">():</span>
            <span class="n">form</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">save</span><span class="p">()</span>
            <span class="n">update_session_auth_hash</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">form</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">user</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="o">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<p>If you are upgrading an existing site and wish to enable this middleware without
requiring all your users to re-login afterward, you should first upgrade to
Django 1.7 and run it for a while so that as sessions are naturally recreated
as users login, they include the session hash as described above. Once you
start running your site with
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/middleware.html#django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware" title="django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">SessionAuthenticationMiddleware</span></tt></a>, any
users who have not logged in and had their session updated with the verification
hash will have their existing session invalidated and be required to login.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">Since
<a class="reference internal" href="customizing.html#django.contrib.auth.models.AbstractBaseUser.get_session_auth_hash" title="django.contrib.auth.models.AbstractBaseUser.get_session_auth_hash"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">get_session_auth_hash()</span></tt></a>
is based on <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/settings.html#std:setting-SECRET_KEY"><tt class="xref std std-setting docutils literal"><span class="pre">SECRET_KEY</span></tt></a>, updating your site to use a new secret
will invalidate all existing sessions.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-module-django.contrib.auth.views">
<span id="s-authentication-views"></span><span id="s-built-in-auth-views"></span><span id="module-django.contrib.auth.views"></span><span id="authentication-views"></span><span id="built-in-auth-views"></span><h3>Authentication Views<a class="headerlink" href="#module-django.contrib.auth.views" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Django provides several views that you can use for handling login, logout, and
password management. These make use of the <a class="reference internal" href="#built-in-auth-forms"><em>stock auth forms</em></a> but you can pass in your own forms as well.</p>
<p>Django provides no default template for the authentication views. You should
create your own templates for the views you want to use. The template context
is documented in each view, see <a class="reference internal" href="#all-authentication-views"><em>All authentication views</em></a>.</p>
<div class="section" id="s-using-the-views">
<span id="s-id5"></span><span id="using-the-views"></span><span id="id5"></span><h4>Using the views<a class="headerlink" href="#using-the-views" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
<p>There are different methods to implement these views in your project. The
easiest way is to include the provided URLconf in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">django.contrib.auth.urls</span></tt>
in your own URLconf, for example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">urlpatterns</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span>
    <span class="n">url</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;^&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">include</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;django.contrib.auth.urls&#39;</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="p">]</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>This will include the following URL patterns:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>^login/$ [name=&#39;login&#39;]
^logout/$ [name=&#39;logout&#39;]
^password_change/$ [name=&#39;password_change&#39;]
^password_change/done/$ [name=&#39;password_change_done&#39;]
^password_reset/$ [name=&#39;password_reset&#39;]
^password_reset/done/$ [name=&#39;password_reset_done&#39;]
^reset/(?P&lt;uidb64&gt;[0-9A-Za-z_\-]+)/(?P&lt;token&gt;[0-9A-Za-z]{1,13}-[0-9A-Za-z]{1,20})/$ [name=&#39;password_reset_confirm&#39;]
^reset/done/$ [name=&#39;password_reset_complete&#39;]
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The views provide a URL name for easier reference. See <a class="reference internal" href="../http/urls.html"><em>the URL
documentation</em></a> for details on using named URL patterns.</p>
<p>If you want more control over your URLs, you can reference a specific view in
your URLconf:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">urlpatterns</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span>
    <span class="n">url</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;^change-password/&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&#39;django.contrib.auth.views.password_change&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="p">]</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The views have optional arguments you can use to alter the behavior of the
view. For example, if you want to change the template name a view uses, you can
provide the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">template_name</span></tt> argument. A way to do this is to provide keyword
arguments in the URLconf, these will be passed on to the view. For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">urlpatterns</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span>
    <span class="n">url</span><span class="p">(</span>
        <span class="s">&#39;^change-password/&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
        <span class="s">&#39;django.contrib.auth.views.password_change&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
        <span class="p">{</span><span class="s">&#39;template_name&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&#39;change-password.html&#39;</span><span class="p">}</span>
    <span class="p">)</span>
<span class="p">]</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>All views return a <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/template-response.html#django.template.response.TemplateResponse" title="django.template.response.TemplateResponse"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">TemplateResponse</span></tt></a>
instance, which allows you to easily customize the response data before
rendering. A way to do this is to wrap a view in your own view:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.contrib.auth</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">views</span>

<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">change_password</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="n">template_response</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">views</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">password_change</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="c"># Do something with `template_response`</span>
    <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">template_response</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>For more details, see the <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/template-response.html"><em>TemplateResponse documentation</em></a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-all-authentication-views">
<span id="s-id6"></span><span id="all-authentication-views"></span><span id="id6"></span><h4>All authentication views<a class="headerlink" href="#all-authentication-views" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
<p>This is a list with all the views <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">django.contrib.auth</span></tt> provides. For
implementation details see <a class="reference internal" href="#using-the-views"><em>Using the views</em></a>.</p>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.views.login">
<tt class="descname">login</tt>(<em>request</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>template_name</em>, <em>redirect_field_name</em>, <em>authentication_form</em>, <em>current_app</em>, <em>extra_context</em><span class="optional">]</span>)<a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/views.html#login"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.views.login" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p><strong>URL name:</strong> <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">login</span></tt></p>
<p>See <a class="reference internal" href="../http/urls.html"><em>the URL documentation</em></a> for details on using
named URL patterns.</p>
<p><strong>Optional arguments:</strong></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">template_name</span></tt>: The name of a template to display for the view used to
log the user in. Defaults to <tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">registration/login.html</span></tt>.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">redirect_field_name</span></tt>: The name of a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">GET</span></tt> field containing the
URL to redirect to after login. Defaults to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">next</span></tt>.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">authentication_form</span></tt>: A callable (typically just a form class) to
use for authentication. Defaults to
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm" title="django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">AuthenticationForm</span></tt></a>.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">current_app</span></tt>: A hint indicating which application contains the current
view. See the <a class="reference internal" href="../http/urls.html#topics-http-reversing-url-namespaces"><em>namespaced URL resolution strategy</em></a> for more information.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">extra_context</span></tt>: A dictionary of context data that will be added to the
default context data passed to the template.</li>
</ul>
<p>Here&#8217;s what <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">django.contrib.auth.views.login</span></tt> does:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>If called via <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">GET</span></tt>, it displays a login form that POSTs to the
same URL. More on this in a bit.</li>
<li>If called via <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">POST</span></tt> with user submitted credentials, it tries to log
the user in. If login is successful, the view redirects to the URL
specified in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">next</span></tt>. If <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">next</span></tt> isn&#8217;t provided, it redirects to
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/settings.html#std:setting-LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL"><tt class="xref std std-setting docutils literal"><span class="pre">settings.LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL</span></tt></a> (which
defaults to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/accounts/profile/</span></tt>). If login isn&#8217;t successful, it
redisplays the login form.</li>
</ul>
<p>It&#8217;s your responsibility to provide the html for the login template
, called <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">registration/login.html</span></tt> by default. This template gets passed
four template context variables:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">form</span></tt>: A <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/forms/api.html#django.forms.Form" title="django.forms.Form"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Form</span></tt></a> object representing the
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm" title="django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">AuthenticationForm</span></tt></a>.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">next</span></tt>: The URL to redirect to after successful login. This may
contain a query string, too.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">site</span></tt>: The current <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/sites.html#django.contrib.sites.models.Site" title="django.contrib.sites.models.Site"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Site</span></tt></a>,
according to the <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/settings.html#std:setting-SITE_ID"><tt class="xref std std-setting docutils literal"><span class="pre">SITE_ID</span></tt></a> setting. If you don&#8217;t have the
site framework installed, this will be set to an instance of
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/sites.html#django.contrib.sites.requests.RequestSite" title="django.contrib.sites.requests.RequestSite"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">RequestSite</span></tt></a>, which derives the
site name and domain from the current
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/request-response.html#django.http.HttpRequest" title="django.http.HttpRequest"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">HttpRequest</span></tt></a>.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">site_name</span></tt>: An alias for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">site.name</span></tt>. If you don&#8217;t have the site
framework installed, this will be set to the value of
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/request-response.html#django.http.HttpRequest.META" title="django.http.HttpRequest.META"><tt class="xref py py-attr docutils literal"><span class="pre">request.META['SERVER_NAME']</span></tt></a>.
For more on sites, see <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/sites.html"><em>The &#8220;sites&#8221; framework</em></a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you&#8217;d prefer not to call the template <tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">registration/login.html</span></tt>,
you can pass the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">template_name</span></tt> parameter via the extra arguments to
the view in your URLconf. For example, this URLconf line would use
<tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">myapp/login.html</span></tt> instead:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">r&#39;^accounts/login/$&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&#39;django.contrib.auth.views.login&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="s">&#39;template_name&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&#39;myapp/login.html&#39;</span><span class="p">}),</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>You can also specify the name of the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">GET</span></tt> field which contains the URL
to redirect to after login by passing <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">redirect_field_name</span></tt> to the view.
By default, the field is called <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">next</span></tt>.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a sample <tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">registration/login.html</span></tt> template you can use as a
starting point. It assumes you have a <tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">base.html</span></tt> template that
defines a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">content</span></tt> block:</p>
<div class="highlight-html+django"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">extends</span> <span class="s2">&quot;base.html&quot;</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>

<span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">block</span> <span class="nv">content</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>

<span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="nv">form.errors</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;p&gt;</span>Your username and password didn&#39;t match. Please try again.<span class="nt">&lt;/p&gt;</span>
<span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">endif</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>

<span class="nt">&lt;form</span> <span class="na">method=</span><span class="s">&quot;post&quot;</span> <span class="na">action=</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">url</span> <span class="s1">&#39;django.contrib.auth.views.login&#39;</span> <span class="cp">%}</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>
<span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">csrf_token</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;table&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;tr&gt;</span>
    <span class="nt">&lt;td&gt;</span><span class="cp">{{</span> <span class="nv">form.username.label_tag</span> <span class="cp">}}</span><span class="nt">&lt;/td&gt;</span>
    <span class="nt">&lt;td&gt;</span><span class="cp">{{</span> <span class="nv">form.username</span> <span class="cp">}}</span><span class="nt">&lt;/td&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;/tr&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;tr&gt;</span>
    <span class="nt">&lt;td&gt;</span><span class="cp">{{</span> <span class="nv">form.password.label_tag</span> <span class="cp">}}</span><span class="nt">&lt;/td&gt;</span>
    <span class="nt">&lt;td&gt;</span><span class="cp">{{</span> <span class="nv">form.password</span> <span class="cp">}}</span><span class="nt">&lt;/td&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;/tr&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;/table&gt;</span>

<span class="nt">&lt;input</span> <span class="na">type=</span><span class="s">&quot;submit&quot;</span> <span class="na">value=</span><span class="s">&quot;login&quot;</span> <span class="nt">/&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;input</span> <span class="na">type=</span><span class="s">&quot;hidden&quot;</span> <span class="na">name=</span><span class="s">&quot;next&quot;</span> <span class="na">value=</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="cp">{{</span> <span class="nv">next</span> <span class="cp">}}</span><span class="s">&quot;</span> <span class="nt">/&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;/form&gt;</span>

<span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">endblock</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>If you have customized authentication (see
<a class="reference internal" href="customizing.html"><em>Customizing Authentication</em></a>) you can pass a custom authentication form
to the login view via the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">authentication_form</span></tt> parameter. This form must
accept a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">request</span></tt> keyword argument in its <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">__init__</span></tt> method, and
provide a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">get_user</span></tt> method which returns the authenticated user object
(this method is only ever called after successful form validation).</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.views.logout">
<tt class="descname">logout</tt>(<em>request</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>next_page</em>, <em>template_name</em>, <em>redirect_field_name</em>, <em>current_app</em>, <em>extra_context</em><span class="optional">]</span>)<a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/views.html#logout"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.views.logout" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Logs a user out.</p>
<p><strong>URL name:</strong> <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">logout</span></tt></p>
<p><strong>Optional arguments:</strong></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">next_page</span></tt>: The URL to redirect to after logout.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">template_name</span></tt>: The full name of a template to display after
logging the user out. Defaults to
<tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">registration/logged_out.html</span></tt> if no argument is supplied.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">redirect_field_name</span></tt>: The name of a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">GET</span></tt> field containing the
URL to redirect to after log out. Defaults to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">next</span></tt>. Overrides the
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">next_page</span></tt> URL if the given <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">GET</span></tt> parameter is passed.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">current_app</span></tt>: A hint indicating which application contains the current
view. See the <a class="reference internal" href="../http/urls.html#topics-http-reversing-url-namespaces"><em>namespaced URL resolution strategy</em></a> for more information.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">extra_context</span></tt>: A dictionary of context data that will be added to the
default context data passed to the template.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Template context:</strong></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">title</span></tt>: The string &#8220;Logged out&#8221;, localized.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">site</span></tt>: The current <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/sites.html#django.contrib.sites.models.Site" title="django.contrib.sites.models.Site"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Site</span></tt></a>,
according to the <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/settings.html#std:setting-SITE_ID"><tt class="xref std std-setting docutils literal"><span class="pre">SITE_ID</span></tt></a> setting. If you don&#8217;t have the
site framework installed, this will be set to an instance of
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/sites.html#django.contrib.sites.requests.RequestSite" title="django.contrib.sites.requests.RequestSite"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">RequestSite</span></tt></a>, which derives the
site name and domain from the current
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/request-response.html#django.http.HttpRequest" title="django.http.HttpRequest"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">HttpRequest</span></tt></a>.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">site_name</span></tt>: An alias for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">site.name</span></tt>. If you don&#8217;t have the site
framework installed, this will be set to the value of
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/request-response.html#django.http.HttpRequest.META" title="django.http.HttpRequest.META"><tt class="xref py py-attr docutils literal"><span class="pre">request.META['SERVER_NAME']</span></tt></a>.
For more on sites, see <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/sites.html"><em>The &#8220;sites&#8221; framework</em></a>.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">current_app</span></tt>: A hint indicating which application contains the current
view. See the <a class="reference internal" href="../http/urls.html#topics-http-reversing-url-namespaces"><em>namespaced URL resolution strategy</em></a> for more information.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">extra_context</span></tt>: A dictionary of context data that will be added to the
default context data passed to the template.</li>
</ul>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.views.logout_then_login">
<tt class="descname">logout_then_login</tt>(<em>request</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>login_url</em>, <em>current_app</em>, <em>extra_context</em><span class="optional">]</span>)<a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/views.html#logout_then_login"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.views.logout_then_login" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Logs a user out, then redirects to the login page.</p>
<p><strong>URL name:</strong> No default URL provided</p>
<p><strong>Optional arguments:</strong></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">login_url</span></tt>: The URL of the login page to redirect to.
Defaults to <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/settings.html#std:setting-LOGIN_URL"><tt class="xref std std-setting docutils literal"><span class="pre">settings.LOGIN_URL</span></tt></a> if not supplied.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">current_app</span></tt>: A hint indicating which application contains the current
view. See the <a class="reference internal" href="../http/urls.html#topics-http-reversing-url-namespaces"><em>namespaced URL resolution strategy</em></a> for more information.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">extra_context</span></tt>: A dictionary of context data that will be added to the
default context data passed to the template.</li>
</ul>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.views.password_change">
<tt class="descname">password_change</tt>(<em>request</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>template_name</em>, <em>post_change_redirect</em>, <em>password_change_form</em>, <em>current_app</em>, <em>extra_context</em><span class="optional">]</span>)<a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/views.html#password_change"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.views.password_change" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Allows a user to change their password.</p>
<p><strong>URL name:</strong> <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">password_change</span></tt></p>
<p><strong>Optional arguments:</strong></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">template_name</span></tt>: The full name of a template to use for
displaying the password change form. Defaults to
<tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">registration/password_change_form.html</span></tt> if not supplied.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">post_change_redirect</span></tt>: The URL to redirect to after a successful
password change.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">password_change_form</span></tt>: A custom &#8220;change password&#8221; form which must
accept a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">user</span></tt> keyword argument. The form is responsible for
actually changing the user&#8217;s password. Defaults to
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.forms.PasswordChangeForm" title="django.contrib.auth.forms.PasswordChangeForm"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">PasswordChangeForm</span></tt></a>.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">current_app</span></tt>: A hint indicating which application contains the current
view. See the <a class="reference internal" href="../http/urls.html#topics-http-reversing-url-namespaces"><em>namespaced URL resolution strategy</em></a> for more information.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">extra_context</span></tt>: A dictionary of context data that will be added to the
default context data passed to the template.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Template context:</strong></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">form</span></tt>: The password change form (see <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">password_change_form</span></tt> above).</li>
</ul>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.views.password_change_done">
<tt class="descname">password_change_done</tt>(<em>request</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>template_name</em>, <em>current_app</em>, <em>extra_context</em><span class="optional">]</span>)<a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/views.html#password_change_done"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.views.password_change_done" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The page shown after a user has changed their password.</p>
<p><strong>URL name:</strong> <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">password_change_done</span></tt></p>
<p><strong>Optional arguments:</strong></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">template_name</span></tt>: The full name of a template to use.
Defaults to <tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">registration/password_change_done.html</span></tt> if not
supplied.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">current_app</span></tt>: A hint indicating which application contains the current
view. See the <a class="reference internal" href="../http/urls.html#topics-http-reversing-url-namespaces"><em>namespaced URL resolution strategy</em></a> for more information.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">extra_context</span></tt>: A dictionary of context data that will be added to the
default context data passed to the template.</li>
</ul>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset">
<tt class="descname">password_reset</tt>(<em>request</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>is_admin_site</em>, <em>template_name</em>, <em>email_template_name</em>, <em>password_reset_form</em>, <em>token_generator</em>, <em>post_reset_redirect</em>, <em>from_email</em>, <em>current_app</em>, <em>extra_context</em>, <em>html_email_template_name</em><span class="optional">]</span>)<a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/views.html#password_reset"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Allows a user to reset their password by generating a one-time use link
that can be used to reset the password, and sending that link to the
user&#8217;s registered email address.</p>
<p>If the email address provided does not exist in the system, this view
won&#8217;t send an email, but the user won&#8217;t receive any error message either.
This prevents information leaking to potential attackers. If you want to
provide an error message in this case, you can subclass
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.forms.PasswordResetForm" title="django.contrib.auth.forms.PasswordResetForm"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">PasswordResetForm</span></tt></a> and use the
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">password_reset_form</span></tt> argument.</p>
<p>Users flagged with an unusable password (see
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User.set_unusable_password" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User.set_unusable_password"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_unusable_password()</span></tt></a> aren&#8217;t
allowed to request a password reset to prevent misuse when using an
external authentication source like LDAP. Note that they won&#8217;t receive any
error message since this would expose their account&#8217;s existence but no
mail will be sent either.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<span class="title">Changed in Django 1.6:</span> <p>Previously, error messages indicated whether a given email was
registered.</p>
</div>
<p><strong>URL name:</strong> <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">password_reset</span></tt></p>
<p><strong>Optional arguments:</strong></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">template_name</span></tt>: The full name of a template to use for
displaying the password reset form. Defaults to
<tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">registration/password_reset_form.html</span></tt> if not supplied.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">email_template_name</span></tt>: The full name of a template to use for
generating the email with the reset password link. Defaults to
<tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">registration/password_reset_email.html</span></tt> if not supplied.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">subject_template_name</span></tt>: The full name of a template to use for
the subject of the email with the reset password link. Defaults
to <tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">registration/password_reset_subject.txt</span></tt> if not supplied.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">password_reset_form</span></tt>: Form that will be used to get the email of
the user to reset the password for. Defaults to
<a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.forms.PasswordResetForm" title="django.contrib.auth.forms.PasswordResetForm"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">PasswordResetForm</span></tt></a>.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">token_generator</span></tt>: Instance of the class to check the one time link.
This will default to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">default_token_generator</span></tt>, it&#8217;s an instance of
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">django.contrib.auth.tokens.PasswordResetTokenGenerator</span></tt>.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">post_reset_redirect</span></tt>: The URL to redirect to after a successful
password reset request.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">from_email</span></tt>: A valid email address. By default Django uses
the <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/settings.html#std:setting-DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL"><tt class="xref std std-setting docutils literal"><span class="pre">DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL</span></tt></a>.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">current_app</span></tt>: A hint indicating which application contains the current
view. See the <a class="reference internal" href="../http/urls.html#topics-http-reversing-url-namespaces"><em>namespaced URL resolution strategy</em></a> for more information.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">extra_context</span></tt>: A dictionary of context data that will be added to the
default context data passed to the template.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">html_email_template_name</span></tt>: The full name of a template to use
for generating a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">text/html</span></tt> multipart email with the password reset
link. By default, HTML email is not sent.</li>
</ul>
<div class="versionadded">
<span class="title">New in Django 1.7:</span> <p><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">html_email_template_name</span></tt> was added.</p>
</div>
<p><strong>Template context:</strong></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">form</span></tt>: The form (see <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">password_reset_form</span></tt> above) for resetting
the user&#8217;s password.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Email template context:</strong></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">email</span></tt>: An alias for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">user.email</span></tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">user</span></tt>: The current <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">User</span></tt></a>,
according to the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">email</span></tt> form field. Only active users are able to
reset their passwords (<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">User.is_active</span> <span class="pre">is</span> <span class="pre">True</span></tt>).</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">site_name</span></tt>: An alias for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">site.name</span></tt>. If you don&#8217;t have the site
framework installed, this will be set to the value of
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/request-response.html#django.http.HttpRequest.META" title="django.http.HttpRequest.META"><tt class="xref py py-attr docutils literal"><span class="pre">request.META['SERVER_NAME']</span></tt></a>.
For more on sites, see <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/sites.html"><em>The &#8220;sites&#8221; framework</em></a>.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">domain</span></tt>: An alias for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">site.domain</span></tt>. If you don&#8217;t have the site
framework installed, this will be set to the value of
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">request.get_host()</span></tt>.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">protocol</span></tt>: http or https</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">uid</span></tt>: The user&#8217;s primary key encoded in base 64.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">token</span></tt>: Token to check that the reset link is valid.</li>
</ul>
<p>Sample <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">registration/password_reset_email.html</span></tt> (email body template):</p>
<div class="highlight-html+django"><div class="highlight"><pre>Someone asked for password reset for email <span class="cp">{{</span> <span class="nv">email</span> <span class="cp">}}</span>. Follow the link below:
<span class="cp">{{</span> <span class="nv">protocol</span><span class="cp">}}</span>://<span class="cp">{{</span> <span class="nv">domain</span> <span class="cp">}}{%</span> <span class="k">url</span> <span class="s1">&#39;password_reset_confirm&#39;</span> <span class="nv">uidb64</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="nv">uid</span> <span class="nv">token</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="nv">token</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<span class="title">Changed in Django 1.6:</span> <p>Reversing <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">password_reset_confirm</span></tt> takes a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">uidb64</span></tt> argument instead
of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">uidb36</span></tt>.</p>
</div>
<p>The same template context is used for subject template. Subject must be
single line plain text string.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_done">
<tt class="descname">password_reset_done</tt>(<em>request</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>template_name</em>, <em>current_app</em>, <em>extra_context</em><span class="optional">]</span>)<a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/views.html#password_reset_done"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_done" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The page shown after a user has been emailed a link to reset their
password. This view is called by default if the <a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset" title="django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">password_reset()</span></tt></a> view
doesn&#8217;t have an explicit <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">post_reset_redirect</span></tt> URL set.</p>
<p><strong>URL name:</strong> <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">password_reset_done</span></tt></p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">If the email address provided does not exist in the system, the user is inactive, or has an unusable password,
the user will still be redirected to this view but no email will be sent.</p>
</div>
<p><strong>Optional arguments:</strong></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">template_name</span></tt>: The full name of a template to use.
Defaults to <tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">registration/password_reset_done.html</span></tt> if not
supplied.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">current_app</span></tt>: A hint indicating which application contains the current
view. See the <a class="reference internal" href="../http/urls.html#topics-http-reversing-url-namespaces"><em>namespaced URL resolution strategy</em></a> for more information.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">extra_context</span></tt>: A dictionary of context data that will be added to the
default context data passed to the template.</li>
</ul>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm">
<tt class="descname">password_reset_confirm</tt>(<em>request</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>uidb64</em>, <em>token</em>, <em>template_name</em>, <em>token_generator</em>, <em>set_password_form</em>, <em>post_reset_redirect</em>, <em>current_app</em>, <em>extra_context</em><span class="optional">]</span>)<a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/views.html#password_reset_confirm"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Presents a form for entering a new password.</p>
<p><strong>URL name:</strong> <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">password_reset_confirm</span></tt></p>
<p><strong>Optional arguments:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">uidb64</span></tt>: The user&#8217;s id encoded in base 64. Defaults to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">None</span></tt>.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<span class="title">Changed in Django 1.6:</span> <p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">uidb64</span></tt> parameter was previously base 36 encoded and named
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">uidb36</span></tt>.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">token</span></tt>: Token to check that the password is valid. Defaults to
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">None</span></tt>.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">template_name</span></tt>: The full name of a template to display the confirm
password view. Default value is <tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">registration/password_reset_confirm.html</span></tt>.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">token_generator</span></tt>: Instance of the class to check the password. This
will default to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">default_token_generator</span></tt>, it&#8217;s an instance of
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">django.contrib.auth.tokens.PasswordResetTokenGenerator</span></tt>.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_password_form</span></tt>: Form that will be used to set the password.
Defaults to <a class="reference internal" href="#django.contrib.auth.forms.SetPasswordForm" title="django.contrib.auth.forms.SetPasswordForm"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">SetPasswordForm</span></tt></a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">post_reset_redirect</span></tt>: URL to redirect after the password reset
done. Defaults to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">None</span></tt>.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">current_app</span></tt>: A hint indicating which application contains the current
view. See the <a class="reference internal" href="../http/urls.html#topics-http-reversing-url-namespaces"><em>namespaced URL resolution strategy</em></a> for more information.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">extra_context</span></tt>: A dictionary of context data that will be added to the
default context data passed to the template.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Template context:</strong></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">form</span></tt>: The form (see <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_password_form</span></tt> above) for setting the
new user&#8217;s password.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">validlink</span></tt>: Boolean, True if the link (combination of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">uidb64</span></tt> and
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">token</span></tt>) is valid or unused yet.</li>
</ul>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_complete">
<tt class="descname">password_reset_complete</tt>(<em>request</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>template_name</em>, <em>current_app</em>, <em>extra_context</em><span class="optional">]</span>)<a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/views.html#password_reset_complete"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_complete" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Presents a view which informs the user that the password has been
successfully changed.</p>
<p><strong>URL name:</strong> <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">password_reset_complete</span></tt></p>
<p><strong>Optional arguments:</strong></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">template_name</span></tt>: The full name of a template to display the view.
Defaults to <tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">registration/password_reset_complete.html</span></tt>.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">current_app</span></tt>: A hint indicating which application contains the current
view. See the <a class="reference internal" href="../http/urls.html#topics-http-reversing-url-namespaces"><em>namespaced URL resolution strategy</em></a> for more information.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">extra_context</span></tt>: A dictionary of context data that will be added to the
default context data passed to the template.</li>
</ul>
</dd></dl>

</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-helper-functions">
<span id="helper-functions"></span><h3>Helper functions<a class="headerlink" href="#helper-functions" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.views.redirect_to_login">
<tt class="descname">redirect_to_login</tt>(<em>next</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>login_url</em>, <em>redirect_field_name</em><span class="optional">]</span>)<a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/views.html#redirect_to_login"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.views.redirect_to_login" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Redirects to the login page, and then back to another URL after a
successful login.</p>
<p><strong>Required arguments:</strong></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">next</span></tt>: The URL to redirect to after a successful login.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Optional arguments:</strong></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">login_url</span></tt>: The URL of the login page to redirect to.
Defaults to <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/settings.html#std:setting-LOGIN_URL"><tt class="xref std std-setting docutils literal"><span class="pre">settings.LOGIN_URL</span></tt></a> if not supplied.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">redirect_field_name</span></tt>: The name of a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">GET</span></tt> field containing the
URL to redirect to after log out. Overrides <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">next</span></tt> if the given
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">GET</span></tt> parameter is passed.</li>
</ul>
</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="s-module-django.contrib.auth.forms">
<span id="s-built-in-forms"></span><span id="s-built-in-auth-forms"></span><span id="module-django.contrib.auth.forms"></span><span id="built-in-forms"></span><span id="built-in-auth-forms"></span><h3>Built-in forms<a class="headerlink" href="#module-django.contrib.auth.forms" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>If you don&#8217;t want to use the built-in views, but want the convenience of not
having to write forms for this functionality, the authentication system
provides several built-in forms located in <a class="reference internal" href="#module-django.contrib.auth.forms" title="django.contrib.auth.forms"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">django.contrib.auth.forms</span></tt></a>:</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">The built-in authentication forms make certain assumptions about the user
model that they are working with. If you&#8217;re using a <a class="reference internal" href="customizing.html#auth-custom-user"><em>custom User model</em></a>, it may be necessary to define your own forms for the
authentication system. For more information, refer to the documentation
about <a class="reference internal" href="customizing.html#custom-users-and-the-built-in-auth-forms"><em>using the built-in authentication forms with custom user models</em></a>.</p>
</div>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.forms.AdminPasswordChangeForm">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descname">AdminPasswordChangeForm</tt><a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/forms.html#AdminPasswordChangeForm"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.forms.AdminPasswordChangeForm" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>A form used in the admin interface to change a user&#8217;s password.</p>
<p>Takes the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">user</span></tt> as the first positional argument.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descname">AuthenticationForm</tt><a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/forms.html#AuthenticationForm"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>A form for logging a user in.</p>
<p>Takes <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">request</span></tt> as its first positional argument, which is stored on the
form instance for use by sub-classes.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm.confirm_login_allowed">
<tt class="descname">confirm_login_allowed</tt>(<em>user</em>)<a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/forms.html#AuthenticationForm.confirm_login_allowed"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm.confirm_login_allowed" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="versionadded">
<span class="title">New in Django 1.7.</span> </div>
<p>By default, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">AuthenticationForm</span></tt> rejects users whose <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">is_active</span></tt> flag
is set to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">False</span></tt>. You may override this behavior with a custom policy to
determine which users can log in. Do this with a custom form that subclasses
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">AuthenticationForm</span></tt> and overrides the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">confirm_login_allowed</span></tt> method.
This method should raise a <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/exceptions.html#django.core.exceptions.ValidationError" title="django.core.exceptions.ValidationError"><tt class="xref py py-exc docutils literal"><span class="pre">ValidationError</span></tt></a>
if the given user may not log in.</p>
<p>For example, to allow all users to log in, regardless of &#8220;active&#8221; status:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.contrib.auth.forms</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">AuthenticationForm</span>

<span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">AuthenticationFormWithInactiveUsersOkay</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">AuthenticationForm</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">confirm_login_allowed</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">user</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="k">pass</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Or to allow only some active users to log in:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">PickyAuthenticationForm</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">AuthenticationForm</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">confirm_login_allowed</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">user</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">user</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">is_active</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="k">raise</span> <span class="n">forms</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ValidationError</span><span class="p">(</span>
                <span class="n">_</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;This account is inactive.&quot;</span><span class="p">),</span>
                <span class="n">code</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;inactive&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
            <span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">user</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">username</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">startswith</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;b&#39;</span><span class="p">):</span>
            <span class="k">raise</span> <span class="n">forms</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ValidationError</span><span class="p">(</span>
                <span class="n">_</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;Sorry, accounts starting with &#39;b&#39; aren&#39;t welcome here.&quot;</span><span class="p">),</span>
                <span class="n">code</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;no_b_users&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
            <span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd></dl>

</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.forms.PasswordChangeForm">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descname">PasswordChangeForm</tt><a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/forms.html#PasswordChangeForm"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.forms.PasswordChangeForm" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>A form for allowing a user to change their password.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.forms.PasswordResetForm">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descname">PasswordResetForm</tt><a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/forms.html#PasswordResetForm"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.forms.PasswordResetForm" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>A form for generating and emailing a one-time use link to reset a
user&#8217;s password.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.forms.SetPasswordForm">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descname">SetPasswordForm</tt><a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/forms.html#SetPasswordForm"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.forms.SetPasswordForm" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>A form that lets a user change their password without entering the old
password.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.forms.UserChangeForm">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descname">UserChangeForm</tt><a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/forms.html#UserChangeForm"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.forms.UserChangeForm" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>A form used in the admin interface to change a user&#8217;s information and
permissions.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="django.contrib.auth.forms.UserCreationForm">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descname">UserCreationForm</tt><a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/django/contrib/auth/forms.html#UserCreationForm"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#django.contrib.auth.forms.UserCreationForm" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>A form for creating a new user.</p>
</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="s-authentication-data-in-templates">
<span id="authentication-data-in-templates"></span><h3>Authentication data in templates<a class="headerlink" href="#authentication-data-in-templates" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The currently logged-in user and their permissions are made available in the
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/templates/api.html"><em>template context</em></a> when you use
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/templates/api.html#django.template.RequestContext" title="django.template.RequestContext"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">RequestContext</span></tt></a>.</p>
<div class="admonition-technicality admonition">
<p class="first admonition-title">Technicality</p>
<p class="last">Technically, these variables are only made available in the template context
if you use <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/templates/api.html#django.template.RequestContext" title="django.template.RequestContext"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">RequestContext</span></tt></a> <em>and</em> your
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/settings.html#std:setting-TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS"><tt class="xref std std-setting docutils literal"><span class="pre">TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS</span></tt></a> setting contains
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&quot;django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth&quot;</span></tt>, which is default. For
more, see the <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/templates/api.html#subclassing-context-requestcontext"><em>RequestContext docs</em></a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-users">
<span id="users"></span><h4>Users<a class="headerlink" href="#users" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
<p>When rendering a template <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/templates/api.html#django.template.RequestContext" title="django.template.RequestContext"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">RequestContext</span></tt></a>, the
currently logged-in user, either a  <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">User</span></tt></a>
instance or an <a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.AnonymousUser" title="django.contrib.auth.models.AnonymousUser"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">AnonymousUser</span></tt></a> instance, is
stored in the template variable <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">{{</span> <span class="pre">user</span> <span class="pre">}}</span></tt>:</p>
<div class="highlight-html+django"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="nv">user.is_authenticated</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
    <span class="nt">&lt;p&gt;</span>Welcome, <span class="cp">{{</span> <span class="nv">user.username</span> <span class="cp">}}</span>. Thanks for logging in.<span class="nt">&lt;/p&gt;</span>
<span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">else</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
    <span class="nt">&lt;p&gt;</span>Welcome, new user. Please log in.<span class="nt">&lt;/p&gt;</span>
<span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">endif</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>This template context variable is not available if a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">RequestContext</span></tt> is not
being used.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-permissions">
<span id="permissions"></span><h4>Permissions<a class="headerlink" href="#permissions" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
<p>The currently logged-in user&#8217;s permissions are stored in the template variable
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">{{</span> <span class="pre">perms</span> <span class="pre">}}</span></tt>. This is an instance of
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">django.contrib.auth.context_processors.PermWrapper</span></tt>, which is a
template-friendly proxy of permissions.</p>
<p>In the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">{{</span> <span class="pre">perms</span> <span class="pre">}}</span></tt> object, single-attribute lookup is a proxy to
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User.has_module_perms" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User.has_module_perms"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">User.has_module_perms</span></tt></a>.
This example would display <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">True</span></tt> if the logged-in user had any permissions
in the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">foo</span></tt> app:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="p">{{</span> <span class="n">perms</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">foo</span> <span class="p">}}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Two-level-attribute lookup is a proxy to
<a class="reference internal" href="../../ref/contrib/auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User.has_perm" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User.has_perm"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">User.has_perm</span></tt></a>. This example
would display <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">True</span></tt> if the logged-in user had the permission
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">foo.can_vote</span></tt>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="p">{{</span> <span class="n">perms</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">foo</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">can_vote</span> <span class="p">}}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Thus, you can check permissions in template <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">{%</span> <span class="pre">if</span> <span class="pre">%}</span></tt> statements:</p>
<div class="highlight-html+django"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="nv">perms.foo</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
    <span class="nt">&lt;p&gt;</span>You have permission to do something in the foo app.<span class="nt">&lt;/p&gt;</span>
    <span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="nv">perms.foo.can_vote</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
        <span class="nt">&lt;p&gt;</span>You can vote!<span class="nt">&lt;/p&gt;</span>
    <span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">endif</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
    <span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="nv">perms.foo.can_drive</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
        <span class="nt">&lt;p&gt;</span>You can drive!<span class="nt">&lt;/p&gt;</span>
    <span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">endif</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
<span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">else</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
    <span class="nt">&lt;p&gt;</span>You don&#39;t have permission to do anything in the foo app.<span class="nt">&lt;/p&gt;</span>
<span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">endif</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>It is possible to also look permissions up by <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">{%</span> <span class="pre">if</span> <span class="pre">in</span> <span class="pre">%}</span></tt> statements.
For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-html+django"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="s1">&#39;foo&#39;</span> <span class="k">in</span> <span class="nv">perms</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
    <span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="s1">&#39;foo.can_vote&#39;</span> <span class="k">in</span> <span class="nv">perms</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
        <span class="nt">&lt;p&gt;</span>In lookup works, too.<span class="nt">&lt;/p&gt;</span>
    <span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">endif</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
<span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">endif</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-managing-users-in-the-admin">
<span id="s-auth-admin"></span><span id="managing-users-in-the-admin"></span><span id="auth-admin"></span><h2>Managing users in the admin<a class="headerlink" href="#managing-users-in-the-admin" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>When you have both <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">django.contrib.admin</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">django.contrib.auth</span></tt>
installed, the admin provides a convenient way to view and manage users,
groups, and permissions. Users can be created and deleted like any Django
model. Groups can be created, and permissions can be assigned to users or
groups. A log of user edits to models made within the admin is also stored and
displayed.</p>
<div class="section" id="s-id7">
<span id="id7"></span><h3>Creating Users<a class="headerlink" href="#id7" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>You should see a link to &#8220;Users&#8221; in the &#8220;Auth&#8221;
section of the main admin index page. The &#8220;Add user&#8221; admin page is different
than standard admin pages in that it requires you to choose a username and
password before allowing you to edit the rest of the user&#8217;s fields.</p>
<p>Also note: if you want a user account to be able to create users using the
Django admin site, you&#8217;ll need to give them permission to add users <em>and</em>
change users (i.e., the &#8220;Add user&#8221; and &#8220;Change user&#8221; permissions). If an
account has permission to add users but not to change them, that account won&#8217;t
be able to add users. Why? Because if you have permission to add users, you
have the power to create superusers, which can then, in turn, change other
users. So Django requires add <em>and</em> change permissions as a slight security
measure.</p>
<p>Be thoughtful about how you allow users to manage permissions. If you give a
non-superuser the ability to edit users, this is ultimately the same as giving
them superuser status because they will be able to elevate permissions of
users including themselves!</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="s-id8">
<span id="id8"></span><h3>Changing Passwords<a class="headerlink" href="#id8" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>User passwords are not displayed in the admin (nor stored in the database), but
the <a class="reference internal" href="passwords.html"><em>password storage details</em></a> are displayed.
Included in the display of this information is a link to
a password change form that allows admins to change user passwords.</p>
</div>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#the-login-required-decorator">The login_required decorator</a></li>
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